Penetrating 205 kilometres (127 miles) inland, with an average breadth of five kilometres – in places far less – and reaching a depth of 1300 metres (0.8125 miles) Sognefjord is the longest and deepest in Norway. The PR folk have … Read More »
… empire managers are acutely aware of something normal human beings are not: that power comes from manipulating the stories people tell themselves about reality. They know we are storytelling animals, our inner lives dominated by mental narratives about what’s … Read More »
It’s hard to overstate my contempt for the spineless technocrats masquerading as the West’s political leaders. What to conclude from the strutting, the breathtaking failures of reason and ‘post-truth’ disdain for facts on display in our Macrons and Camerons, our … Read More »
After three delightful days in summery Oslo, pictures yet to be processed, Jackie and I boarded the 12:03 to Bergen yesterday, Sunday. I hope your enjoyment of these snaps isn’t marred too much by motion blur and ghosting, for which … Read More »
Short, lucid and pithily on point. Jonathan Cook, ousted by his onetime Guardian employer for criticising Israel, spells out the murderous cynicism informing the WashingtonSpeak, dutifully relayed by media stenographers, of “peace proposals” whose inevitable “failure” will be spun as … Read More »
This post continues the theme of yesterday’s, featuring Caitlin Johnstone. Here is my favourite political economist, Michael Hudson, away from his customary terrain to throw a beam on the new McCarthyism sweeping American public life, beginning, chillingly, with academia. We … Read More »
Many of us ask ourselves. “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now. … Read More »
Approaching Oban on the ferry from Mull * * *
Other than all being gamekeepers turned poacher – establishment figures, including but not confined to the military, now sternly critical of their countries’ elites and media narratives – what do the following have in common: Jacques Baud, Karen Kwiotkowski, Douglas … Read More »
Who has the upper hand in a bar room fight? The biggest and strongest? The martial arts ace? Maybe. But more often than not the person who’ll take things to the limit wins the fight before it’s even started. Are … Read More »